If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In the papers a few days ago there was the announcement that a government department sacked 11 staff for looking at pornography on their work computers and another 14 had resigned for abusing the department's internet use policy. The [...]
I have got this book on order from Amazon and cannot wait to read it - The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Bob Sutton. This book was published in February this year. It is about creating an environment where no assholes should be allowed in [...]
In his recent post Michael Specht writes about the results of a survey conducted by SmartCompany regarding what employers think of Gen Y. Almost 70% of employers said:
poor spelling and grammar and a failure to understand what constitutes appropriate corporate behaviour are the biggest bugbears... communication skills of Gen Y staff disappointed [...]
The Olivier Internet Job Index June 2007 has been released. The Olivier IJI provides information to employers, recruiters and job seekers on what is happening in the Australian labour market by analysing Internet job ads. They break this information further into different employment sectors and for each State and Territory. There were 330,438 job ads [...]
As HR professionals we should know our organisation's business. If we do not, then we are most likely designing HR strategies for "HR's sake" and not adding any real value. HR processes and strategies should be designed to help the overall organisational goals and to give a competitive advantage. The only way to [...]
